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Welcome! Here’s How it Works…

October 29, 2018

Welcome to the Detroit Punk Archive! This site aims to tell the stories of the bands in the scene that started just before and around Bookie’s Club 870 in early 1978. The site is broken up into THREE main sections: BANDS, VENUES, and MEDIA:  The BANDS section features pages on the various groups that started […]

UPDATE – APRIL 6th, 2022

April 6, 2022

Just a quick shout out that BADHABIT is seeing their unreleased tracks from 1980-1981 released on vinyl in a special limited run from Italy’s Rave Up Records label. You can get your copy through this link.  

UPDATES – DECEMBER 23RD, 2021

December 23, 2021

Been a minute but we’ve added a few more updates thanks due to John Monaghan and TM Caldwell for finding these flyers and offering them up to the archive: BadHabit – November 27th/28th, 1981 Final Show at Freestyle Flyer The Boners – April 12th, 1982 Tremor Revue show flyers Cinecyde – Halloween 1977 show at […]

UPDATES – JULY 17th, 2020

July 17, 2020

“People have been saying that name for centuries behind doors, let’s see if they can say it to our face.” – Kenneth “Reno” Richards (2020 interview). This is a small update but it’s also a massive one because it helps to unravel part of the mystery of one of the Detroit punk bands I thought […]

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